A type of gatekeeping that involves the reveal of a personal project, information discovery, or lost media find, with the explicit caveat that such will not be released to the general public.
Intentional or not, this action usually results in backlash due to the perceived futility of sharing information about a thing
people want but cannot interact with. These reactions
may appear similar to community entitlement, but come from the breaking of the
internet norm of
people freely sharing things for others to have.
This gatekeeping can result from the poster's need for validation and recognition, clashing with the copyrighted or legally
gray nature of the media/project/info, insisting on not releasing it instead of doing an anonymous upload, or under another pseudonym, or making an original project they could just release without those other issues instead.
The name comes from
South Park Season 6, Episode 5, meant to compare the poster to Eric Cartman (a massive piece of shit) creating an amusement park only he could use, called Cartmanland, and the subsequent ad made to mock
people for not being able to use it.
The episode also mirrors what happens to
people that engage in this practice, as the second someone else shows up and shares the gatekept information/media or something similar (
like Cartman losing his park), they will become a mere hated footnote doomed to irrelevance and scorn from the community they deprived.
Poster; I've made a Demake of this Mickey Mouse game for the Game
Gear! Took me 5 years. Also found a lost episode of
The Simpsons. Aren't I awesome? Of course I'm not gonna release it.
Replies; Check it out, YOU CAN'T PLAY IT!
Stop Cartmanlanding shit, hope someone else makes and finds this and shares.
